Jens,
first of all - thank you for your quick answer. No, we are interested in
students in their second, third or fourth year at the university. In
many Danish (science) curricula, introductory programming is a mandatory
part - we are interested in two things: Has the students any remembrance
of the programming they learnt and how do they think of the programming
they learnt: was it relevant for their curriculum, have it been useful
(as a tool, as a way of understanding science, as a way of understanding
fellow students (computer science students in particular))
All of the studies with which I am familiar find that education has zero
cross topic effect on performance in other subjects. A somewhat
surprising result.
With regard to remembering what they have learned. Perhaps you
would be interested in running this www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/accu06a.pdf
experiment on your students.
I plan to run it one some students in the near future and I am
predicting that the performance will be close to 50% (ie, random
selection) except for those operators commonly encountered in
mathematics (except divide which is usually written vertically).
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Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667
Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk
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